Xiao never knew when her birthday was. Because of this, the people of Pandora agreed to celebrate it on Halloween. It helped Xiao to NOT unleash horrors upon them for not letting her go trick or treating (it was one of the best times to get abducted after all).
At Hogwarts Xiao was not having a good All Hallows Eve. It began with double potions, with the wrathful dungeon bat. This was followed by History of Magic, where Xiao couldn't stand the droning tone of the ghost. The annoying ferret that was Draco Malfoy ruined Xiao's tasty lunch of honey pickled apple slices and apple pie.* The idiot made the mistake of stealing Xiao's pie and milk. One trip to the infirmary later, resulted in Xiao earning a one way ticket to a detention with Professor Sprout. This was followed by charms with the Gryffindors. Ronald Weasley was an annoying brat who severely insulted Hermione.
The bushy haired girl was one of the few wizards that Xiao liked being around. ' That human is going to pay!' Xiao thought. She plotted how she would get revenge while she practiced the levitation charm on a crimson ribbon. The goblin professor praised her playful use of the charm with 50 points.
Once class was over Ron talked (rather loudly) to a pair of Gryffindor boys. " Can you believe how bossy Hermione is?," he complained, "she's worse than a Ravenclaw!" This made Hermione burst into tears then run away.
' He is definitely going to pay!' Xiao thought vengeful. ' I had better leave her alone for now... I'm not good at comforting people...' The only experience Xiao had with comforting people was from Cheshire's times comforting Alyss, and that thing wasn't a very example. So Xiao went to Herbology, hoping Hermione would calm down by dinner.
Once Herbology ended Xiao went looking for Hermione. "Too many places to look," Xiao complained as she took a short break. Her break was shorter than she wanted when Xiao heard the screaming of the a frightened girl. Xiao rushed to the sound only to find what looked like the cook with a neck and green skin. It only had a loincloth to cover up though. The beast swung an enormous club at the stalls, getting even more screams. Xiao quickly slashed at the back of the beasts knees, slicing through its tough hide rather efficiently. The beast collapsed under its own weight, giving Xiao the perfect opening to slash at its throat.
Xiao walked over to the stall the screaming came from, scarring Hermione. Xiao did look pretty menacing when she was covered in blood after all. Once xiao stood in front of Hermione she noticed all the blood on her, along with the fact that her claws were uncovered.
" I'm sorry! Are you OK?"Xiao asked Hermione.
Hermione was scared at first, but managed to get out a stuttered, "yes."
Xiao cheered up at that then pulled Hermione up while saying, "then let's go! You must be thirsty from all that crying!"
The blood on Xiao evaporated as she pulled Hermione to the kitchen for dinner. Xiao liked her meat as raw as possible, so tonight she ate Mett, a German dish while Hermione ate a vegetarian burger. The house elves were surprisingly good at finding out what food people would like the most.
The house elves don't care what people are like, so Xiao could keep her claws uncovered in the kitchen without people overreacting. Hermione kept twitching while she ate. Finally when she was done eating, Hermione said, "canItouchyourears?" In one breath.
Xiao was surprised at the fast sentence, but managed to understand her. "Sure..."Xiao replied, never getting a reaction like that. Hermione shuffled over to the Cheshire Cat, then rubbed Xiao's ears between her fingers.* Xiao couldn't help but love the feeling of being pet, the only thing that could have made it better would have been if Xiao were in her cat form; she even purred from the petting.
"Sorry," Hermione apologized quickly, feeling embarrassed about her overreaction.
"It's fine," Xiao purred. " I normally only get pet when I'm a cat," Xiao replied leaning into Hermione's touch.
Hermione soon stopped, to Xiao's dismay. Xiao then checked her watch; noticing how late it was getting, she left for bed. (Xiao didn't care for detention, so she never went)
Her room was getting more and more comfy. She slowly changed her room to be more homey as the days went by. The wall on the right of the door had her hammock while the other wall was lined with bookshelves. The shelves held random knick knacks, dolls, books, and toys. Each seeming random, or worthless but held meaning for Xiao. They varied from a shard of the mirror Xerxes broke when fighting her big brother, to every volume of the "Holy Knights" series.
The window was changed to a stained glass window with an arrays of colors with the four card suits and a silver sword* crossed with a ruby scythe in the middle. The wall with Xiao's bed was covered in paintings depicting the Cheshire cats discovered in history, like the cat of Underland and Schrödinger of the Nazi.* Xiao covered the floor in soft furry rugs soon after she got the room.
It made it feel almost like home... but, Xiao still missed being home...
AN: if anyone can name any of the references I marked then you are awesome... if you can name them all, then I will make a note of it! ^^
Next time in Cheshire Cat Xiao:
Revenge of the bloody cat,
Ronald's living nightmare!*
Hope you like it! XD